The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-21
CRIME ANDCAsUaLrx.
MUSEUM ATTRACTION DRowNED.

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CRIME ANDCAsUALTY.
MUSEUM ATTRACTION DROWNED.
| VALLEY FALLS. Kas.. July H.
who came here with museum, wa
drowned in the Delaware River at thi
place this evening.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
PORT HURON, Mich, July, ia
destructive fire broke out yesterday af
ternoon in the engine room of Cooley s
Campbell's planning mill, corner o.
Water and Fourth Streets, and spread
with frightful rapidity to their 1arg,
lumber yard and sheds, and from. thesG
to several small tenement houses be
longing TO Harrington s. Tate, on Pins
Street; thence to w. r. Mulford's fur
niture factory; also to the building oc
cupied by r. CASTER, builder, then tC
Forester & Vincent's grain elevator
and small adjacent tenement. Loss
S25, 600.
AN UNPRovoKED MURDER.
WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The most
1 sensational murder in Washington
since the assassination of President
Garfield was committed opposite the
end of the Treasury Department this
/
was Joseph G. Kennedy, aged rs years.
a prominent attorney and real estate
agent, and the murderer was John
Daily, a laborer about so wears
old. Kennedy had just mailed
some letters and started to take a
car, when Daily, stepping up behind
him, plunged a large knife into his
| right side, near the abdomen, and then
| Wrenched 1t. The wounded man gasped
L ns1on fvryino nd Fol Iii,
| five minutes. Daily was hustled off to
the police station through an excited
crowd. There he told rambling story
about Kennedy swindling his father
out of 50 100 many years ago. Ken
| nedy was Commissioner of the Census
in 1850 and 1850, and was formerly an
active politician.
CROSS CAPTURED.
KANSAS CITY, July I5.-Perry II
Cross, an employe of Farley & Co., to-
bacco dealers of this city, who skipped
firm, has been captured at Chicago.
and will be brought here for trial.
Cross Travelled for the firm and was
well known throughout the West.
BRACE OF MURDERERS ARRESTED.
CHICAGO, July 15.-The Inter Ocean s
Logansport, Indiana, special says a
dispatch dated Fort Worth, Texas, was
received to-day from Deputy Sheriff
Stanley, who was detailed from here to
trace the notorious Green boys, and
announced that he has effected their
capture. One of the two brothers is the
murderer of Miss LuelIa Babbet,
whose disappearance was so long a
newspaper theme. The other Green is
also a murderer.
A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
ST.. JAMES, Ont, July ia terrible
accident occurred to-day at the cross
ing of the Grand Trunk and Michigan
Central Railways in this city. About
O'Clock this morning an excursion
train on the Grand Trunk from Port
Stanley ran into passing freight train
on the Michigan Central made up of a
number of cars laden with oil. The
engine crushed into one of these cars
and the oil instantly took
fire and burned with great
fierceneSS, communicating to the cars
on both trains and extending to Grit
fms warehouse, coal and lime sheds
adjoining the track on the west and
John Campbell's dwelling on the east.
all of which were burned to the ground
with the contents. Engineer DonelI of
the excursion train was burned in the
wreck. His fireman jumped and es-
capped with slight injuries. The for
ward car of the excursion train was
filed with passengers, who made
frantic efforts to escape, but
Notwithstanding hundreds of brave and
willing hands were Immediately at
work to assist their escape, it is feared
number of lives have been lost and
that they will be burned beyond recog-
milton before their bodies can be got
out of the wreck. At s o'clock, when
thousands of people were crowding
the burning pile, one of
the tanks on the cars suddenly
exploded, throwing hundreds to the
ground with great force and scattering
fire in all directions and severely. per-
hapS fatally injuring many. At $50
o'clock nine bodies were taken out.
They were burned to a crisp.
LATER.-It is almost impossible to
| ascertain with any certainty the names
| of those lost in the wreck until the ar
rival of the late train from Port Stan
| ley. There are many conflicting ru-
mors, but it seems almost certain that
Engineer H. Donelly and Mr.. iceland,
clerk in j. W. Nickleboro's dry goods
store, and child, and the wife and child
of James Smithers, dry goods mer-
chant, were burned to death. Mrs.
iceland was got out badly burned.
Mt. PLEAsANT's FIRE EXTINGUIsHED.
| PITTSBURa, Pa, July I5.-The great
subterranean fire which started from a
drivers lamp in the Standard mine at
Mt. Pleasant, Pa, nearly a year ago,
| has at last surrendered, and the pit is
/ free of the flames. which burned UP
/ nearly 500, 600 worth of property. The
extent of the measures to overcome the
confagration can be practically realized
when it is stated that it was found
necessary to food fifty acres of under
/ ground workings and allow great body
/ Of RI a in fhnrn for a month
before the fire was extinguiShed.
MANUFACTURING HOUSE BURNED.
BALTIMORE, July 15.-FiFe broke out
shortly before l o'clock to-day in thu
Maryland hominy and corraline milli
at the foot of Frederick Street Dock anC
although the entire fire department
was called out was soon destroyed
The damage is estimated at $50, 600 OF
machinery and stock. The flames com
municated to three adjoining ware
houses belonging to Enoch Platt anC
occupied by the Gambrill Manufactur
ing Company for the storage of wheat
flour, and barrels, which was almoS
entirely destroyed. The fire thel
crossed the alley and took hold of tn
large roller -four mills of the Gambri
Manufacturing Company the uppe
part of which was burned and tn
lower part badly damaged by water
The damage to the Gambrill Compan,
is estimated at fully $40, 1000, the build
! ings belonging to Mr.. Pratt were dam
aged about SIC, 900 and those occupies
, by the hominy and corraIine compan
belonging to j. D. Carver about $40. G0G
The insurance is not known.
A SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
PHILADELPHIA, July Is. Shortl
! after O'Clock this morning fire, cause
! by a spontaneous combustion of mali
: broke out in the second story of tn
Brewery Company at TWenty-nint
Street and Parlor Street. The fiji
gained great Roadway at once owing t
=, the combustible nature of the stool
; and in a few minutes the entire oil
l building was afiame. The private fl
9 hric,o1c of tn hroxrynTv xuifh tho aud .